The DLD program featured not only discussions during panel sessions but also exciting art, architecture, design and music. If you want to find out more about the DLD artists and their works, you can read about here: DLD08 arts &...

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One of the most respected electronic composers of the '90s, Howie B is a sonic polymath whose production work with U2, Bjork, Tricky, Brian Eno, Sinead O'Connor, Sly and Robbie and Everything but the Girl has made him an ace...

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DLD08: Design, Architecture, Arts...

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DLD considers cultural production and creativity necessary for inspiration and disruption and fosters interdisciplinary exchanges and new forms of dialogue. How can creative production contribute to a “LIVE” social networking platform in a way, that contradicts “art on display“ at...

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Frankfurt and Berlin based conceptual artist Tobias Rehberger (*1966) studied at Staatliche Hchschule für bildende Kunst Städelschule Frankfurt A. M., where he currently serves as a professor. His artistic work ranges from space installations and wall paintings to furniture designs...

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Olaf Nicolai (*1962, Halle/Saale) studied at the School of Applied Arts Schneeberg (Germany) and German Literature and Philology at the Universities in Leipzig (Germany), Budapest (Hungary) and Vienna (Austria). In 1992, he completed his PhD on "The Vienna Group" (“Die...

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Markus Miessen is a German, London-based architect, researcher, educator, and writer. Co-director of Miessen&Ploughfields and director of the Architectural Association Winter School Middle East, Miessen has advised the European Kunsthalle and the think tank Demos, and lectured widely including at...

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DLD07 highlights: participants' impressions and DLD arts projects....

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DLD07 participants' impressions: architecture, arts and design (amongst others)....

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DLD considers the logic of arts as filter and catalyzer for innovation, creativity and alternative thinking....

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M/M (Paris) is a partnership between Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag. Michael studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and Mathias studied at the Royal College of Arts, London. Working within the framework and language of...

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Pae White (born 1963, Pasadena, California) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her M.F.A. from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. White’s work often crosses the border between Arts and Design. For the DLD Arts Projects...

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Michelle Nicol is an art historian and managing partner of advertising agency glamour engineering. She has worked as critic and curator of contemporary art for international institutions including the Berlin Biennale and the Museum Ludwig Cologne. Appointed curator of...

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Luc Besson, born in 1959 in Paris, is a French film director, writer and producer who for years belongs to the most successful and versatile directors in Europe. After a few works as assistant director and the short movie...

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© TOBIS Film We are very proud to have French filmmaker and director Luc Besson speaking at DLD07. Luc is the creator of such influental movies as "The Big Blue", "Leon", "Nikita" and "The Fifth Element", which has been...

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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese conceptual artist, curator and architect. For 25 years Ai Weiwei was consistently one of the most innovative figures in China’s art world. He helped direct the course of Chinese art, not only through his...

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Olafur Eliasson was born in Copenhagen in 1967. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and moved to Germany in 1993. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin which today functions as a laboratory...

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Rolf Sachs is a Swiss-passport-carrying European born in Lausanne. He studied mathematics at the London School of Economics and has a Bs in Business administration from the Menlo School of Business Administration. Rolf Sachs is best known as an...

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Hans Ulrich Obrist was born in Zurich in May 1968. He joined the Serpentine Gallery as Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects in April 2006. Prior to this he was Curator of the Musée d’Art...

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Miltos Manetas (born 1964) is an artist and the creator of the Neen art movement. He was born in Greece and currently shares his time between Paris and Los Angeles. He received art training in Brera-Milan, Italy. Manetas' work...

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Nov 12th-14th, Japan Kitakyuhsu and China/ Shanghai: Hosted by Akiko Miyake and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the 4th Bridge the Gap conference takes off at the Center for Contemporary Art CCA Kitakyushu and the Creative Industry Research Center, Shanghai this...

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Who makes great interactive art in the internet? The webart site jacksonpollock.org by Miltos Manetas has just been rated as one of the TOP 5o sites in 2006 by the Times Magazine. Try it yourself -and press the C key...

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Paola Antonelli, Curator, MOMA Paola Antonelli joined The Museum of Modern Art in February 1994 and is a Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design. Her first acclaimed exhibition for MoMA, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995), was followed...

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Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curator The Swiss curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist is well known for the exhibitions he has organized internationally. After studying economics and politics he turned to contemporary art and has since gained wide acclaim for his extraordinary exhibitions, which...

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Stefan Sagmeister, Artist and Graphic Designer, Sagmeister Inc. Stefan Sagmeister formed the New York based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993 and has since designed branding, graphics and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, HBO, the Guggenheim Museum and...

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